Im Venetian Las Vegas wurde erstmals zum $3.200 + 300 Championship Event der World Poker Tour (WPT) geladen. $1.000.000 Preisgeld war garantiert, mit 612 Entries an den beiden Starttagen liegt aber schon fast doppelt soviel im Pot und die Late Reg ist noch möglich.
Das Venetian ist ohnehin beliebt bei den Turnierspielern und auch für große Teilnehmerfelder ausgerichtet. Damit war es auch nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis es zum ersten Mal zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit der WPT kommen würde. Schon an Tag 1A waren es 223 Entries, an Tag 1B kamen noch 389 dazu. Mit insgesamt 612 Entries bisher ist die $1.000.000 Preisgeldgarantie schon längst Geschichte und sogar fast auch schon verdoppelt. Da die Late Reg noch für zwei weitere Levels (Start Level 11) offen ist, werden sicher noch einige Entries hinzukommen.
Viele Prominente und Bekannte sind mit dabei und lassen sich die Premiere nicht entgehen. So war unter anderem Shooting Stars Runner-up Ryan Tosoc mit dabei, auch Joe Serok, Eric Afrait, Anthony Spinella, Shannon Shorr, Kitty Kuo, Keven stammen, Daniel Strelitz, Moshin Charania, Loni Harwood, Anthony Zinno, Dylan Wilkerson und viele mehr.
312 Spieler konnten die beiden Starttage erfolgreich beenden. Die Führung sicherte sich Ravi Raghavan. Er hatte die Könige gegen Queens und Asse, am River fiel der König zum Set und Ravi schnappte den Megapot. Das langte am Ende auch zum Chiplead mit 281.000 Chips. Matthew Waxman liegt auf Rang 2, einmal mehr ist auch Joseph Cheong unter den Big Stacks.
Heute geht es bei den Blinds 500/1000 in Level 9 weiter, die Coverage gibt es unter wpt.com zum Mitlesen.
| Name | Chipcount | Table | Seat |
| Ravi Raghavan | 281.000 | 11 | 3 |
| Matthew Waxman | 255.000 | 21 | 2 |
| Michael Dyer | 247.700 | 1 | 5 |
| Eric Worre | 242.200 | 3 | 5 |
| Joseph Cheong | 239.300 | 27 | 6 |
| Jared Kingsbury | 220.900 | 4 | 5 |
| Peter Hengsakul | 217.000 | 18 | 1 |
| Matthew Hunt | 215.800 | 10 | 2 |
| Patrick Serda | 210.000 | 31 | 2 |
| Pam Mayer | 203.500 | 35 | 9 |
| Will Givens | 196.600 | 7 | 6 |
| Barry Hutter | 183.600 | 36 | 8 |
| Zach Donovan | 178.300 | 17 | 7 |
| Eric Labrador | 177.400 | 2 | 5 |
| Jack Ranallo | 174.300 | 25 | 4 |
| Adam Levy | 173.500 | 3 | 3 |
| Ryan Hohner | 172.300 | 18 | 6 |
| Daniel Chambers | 169.600 | 5 | 7 |
| Dilip Das | 167.300 | 37 | 3 |
| Jean Gaspard | 165.500 | 31 | 8 |
| Cy Watson | 160.000 | 24 | 7 |
| Justin Ligeri | 159.100 | 17 | 5 |
| Terry Fleischer | 157.000 | 11 | 4 |
| Kfir Nahum | 155.000 | 22 | 4 |
| Aaron Messmer | 153.900 | 28 | 3 |
| Maria Ho | 153.600 | 37 | 4 |
| Marc Macdonnell | 148.800 | 12 | 4 |
| Dylan Wilkerson | 147.300 | 19 | 7 |
| Joseph Cappuccio | 147.200 | 10 | 8 |
| Scott Blumstein | 147.200 | 36 | 6 |
| Robert Peacock | 146.600 | 26 | 7 |
| Sean Getzwiller | 145.100 | 34 | 9 |
| Cheng Liu | 144.700 | 31 | 6 |
| Brian Yoon | 143.900 | 3 | 7 |
| Andrew Crookston | 143.500 | 21 | 4 |
| Anthony Zinno | 143.400 | 34 | 8 |
| Dan O’Brien | 137900 | 12 | 9 |
| Jon Turner | 137.800 | 14 | 1 |
| Jerry Robinson | 137.500 | 13 | 3 |
| Said Abuqartoumy | 137.200 | 2 | 9 |
| Eric Baldwin | 133.700 | 8 | 5 |
| Nipun Java | 133.600 | 11 | 8 |
| Brian Altman | 132.800 | 1 | 4 |
| Ryan Leng | 132.300 | 37 | 8 |
| Mike Lang | 128.800 | 37 | 9 |
| Kai Yang | 126.300 | 21 | 9 |
| Mike Del Vecchio | 125.100 | 5 | 1 |
| Ami Alibay | 125.000 | 12 | 6 |
| Frederik Tveit | 124.100 | 26 | 3 |
| Stan Jablonski | 123.700 | 13 | 7 |
| Giuseppe Corapi | 123.200 | 36 | 7 |
| Brandon Hall | 121.500 | 20 | 1 |
| Joseph Alban | 121.200 | 27 | 9 |
| Karim Chatur | 120.900 | 8 | 7 |
| Davian Santana | 118.800 | 28 | 8 |
| Sean Yu | 118.000 | 33 | 6 |
| Ben Palmer | 116.900 | 5 | 9 |
| Ray Qartomy | 116.900 | 24 | 6 |
| Orlando Barrero | 116.000 | 7 | 8 |
| Tony Tran | 115.500 | 32 | 9 |
| Robert Bauto | 115.100 | 36 | 9 |
| J.C. Tran | 114.600 | 25 | 8 |
| Jay Farber | 114.500 | 30 | 4 |
| Tuan Mai | 113.700 | 31 | 9 |
| Freddy Deeb | 113.300 | 21 | 8 |
| Steve Firestone | 112.700 | 5 | 4 |
| Longsheng Tan | 111.500 | 19 | 1 |
| Kevin Song | 108.600 | 33 | 8 |
| Steven Furman | 107.400 | 26 | 9 |
| Matt Salsberg | 107.000 | 19 | 4 |
| Henry McArdle | 107.000 | 26 | 6 |
| Cliff Goldkind | 106.800 | 7 | 1 |
| Hiroaki Harada | 105.800 | 10 | 6 |
| Casey Campbell | 105.400 | 27 | 3 |
| Mark Ioli | 105.100 | 2 | 2 |
| Simon Deadman | 105.000 | 18 | 9 |
| Dan Heimiller | 103.900 | 20 | 7 |
| Bobby Poe | 103.700 | 8 | 3 |
| Bobby Buckingham | 103.500 | 9 | 1 |
| Stephen Nussrallah | 103.100 | 22 | 9 |
| Ankush Mandavia | 103.000 | 15 | 6 |
| Dylan Linde | 102.100 | 6 | 5 |
| Fernando Galvan | 101.700 | 9 | 3 |
| Amnon Filippi | 101.400 | 4 | 6 |
| Loni Harwood | 101.300 | 19 | 6 |
| Rodger Johnson | 100.900 | 16 | 4 |
| Peter Braglia | 100.900 | 35 | 2 |
| Justin Young | 100.700 | 22 | 7 |
| Dylan Thomassie | 100.200 | 6 | 8 |
| Matti Armand | 100.000 | 32 | 6 |
| Caufman Talley | 99.600 | 4 | 9 |
| Vladimir Vasilyev | 98.100 | 31 | 3 |
| Ari Engel | 97.500 | 11 | 9 |
| Erkut Yilmaz | 97.500 | 22 | 1 |
| John Esposito | 97.200 | 26 | 2 |
| Josias Santos | 96.500 | 34 | 1 |
| Michael Zulker | 95.900 | 25 | 2 |
| Ekrem Bozkurt | 95.800 | 4 | 3 |
| Michael Rocco | 95.500 | 33 | 1 |
| Iaron Lightbourne | 95.000 | 24 | 4 |
| Jeff Fielder | 94.400 | 19 | 3 |
| Nicholas E. Blumenthal | 94.000 | 2 | 7 |
| Jeremy Menard | 93.200 | 3 | 1 |
| Haim Gabay | 93.200 | 8 | 6 |
| Jimmy Pham | 93.200 | 10 | 5 |
| Samuel Tsehai | 93.200 | 17 | 8 |
| Mykel Comroe | 93.000 | 12 | 7 |
| Jesse Harrison | 92.900 | 30 | 6 |
| Truyen Nguyen | 92.300 | 10 | 3 |
| Troy Worth | 92.000 | 30 | 2 |
| Jordan Cristos | 91.200 | 4 | 4 |
| Michael Song | 87.500 | 14 | 9 |
| James Carroll | 86.800 | 27 | 4 |
| Toko Luu | 86.000 | 23 | 2 |
| Beau Winn | 85.900 | 9 | 4 |
| Ralph Wong | 85.800 | 12 | 8 |
| David Williams | 85.300 | 18 | 3 |
| Jared Jaffee | 85.200 | 14 | 5 |
| Benjamin Zamani | 85.000 | 16 | 7 |
| Aaron Ogus | 82.500 | 16 | 3 |
| Julian Parmann | 81.900 | 11 | 1 |
| Aram Zobian | 81.200 | 20 | 4 |
| Jason Brin | 81.000 | 28 | 2 |
| Scott Stewart | 80.500 | 6 | 6 |
| Danny Noam | 80.500 | 12 | 2 |
| Scott Wilson | 80.400 | 13 | 1 |
| Hank Sitton | 80.300 | 29 | 3 |
| Mitch Garshofsky | 80.200 | 8 | 8 |
| Richard Kirsch | 80.000 | 11 | 2 |
| Adam Swan | 79.200 | 35 | 1 |
| Eli Elezra | 78.700 | 22 | 2 |
| Chance Kornuth | 77.600 | 6 | 2 |
| Darren Rabinowitz | 76.900 | 2 | 8 |
| John Strzemp | 76.900 | 30 | 9 |
| Steve Buell | 76.000 | 34 | 2 |
| Nate Bandy | 75.500 | 21 | 1 |
| Ryan Olisar | 74.500 | 16 | 8 |
| Ryan Remington | 73.600 | 2 | 4 |
| Jeff Frerichs | 73.600 | 33 | 7 |
| Anthony Keshish | 73.500 | 1 | 7 |
| Yegor Moroz | 73.400 | 10 | 1 |
| Danny Wong | 73.000 | 8 | 1 |
| Nathaniel Stokes | 72.900 | 4 | 2 |
| Thomas Eaglestaff | 71.500 | 4 | 8 |
| Lee Markholt | 70.900 | 24 | 8 |
| Clint Tolbert | 70.900 | 27 | 1 |
| Greg Roberts | 70.600 | 24 | 2 |
| David Barney | 70.200 | 1 | 9 |
| Peter W. Chu | 70.200 | 23 | 1 |
| Vladimir Alexandrov | 70.100 | 27 | 7 |
| Anthony Howell | 70.000 | 22 | 6 |
| Jose Olegario | 69.900 | 2 | 6 |
| Giussepe Liantonio | 69.500 | 32 | 3 |
| Michael Nelson | 69.200 | 18 | 8 |
| Jay Lee | 69.000 | 18 | 7 |
| Karle Wilson | 68.700 | 14 | 2 |
| Jeremy Ausmus | 68.100 | 31 | 7 |
| Zinan Xu | 67.000 | 23 | 8 |
| Chris Leong | 66.900 | 15 | 9 |
| Peter Lockwood | 66.800 | 6 | 9 |
| Stuart Marshak | 66.800 | 24 | 3 |
| Ross Gottlieb | 66.700 | 12 | 5 |
| Peter Nigh | 65.900 | 10 | 4 |
| Tony Phan | 65.800 | 7 | 9 |
| Turbo Nguyen | 65.600 | 25 | 3 |
| Jonathan Khalifa | 65.100 | 29 | 4 |
| Robert Webb | 64.000 | 19 | 8 |
| Ibragim Komilov | 63.800 | 16 | 6 |
| Larry Ormson | 63.500 | 6 | 4 |
| Michael Tureniec | 63.100 | 3 | 2 |
| Lorell Pascual | 62.800 | 21 | 3 |
| Byron Kaverman | 61.200 | 11 | 5 |
| Timothy Chang | 60.700 | 3 | 4 |
| Peter Eichhardt | 60.400 | 1 | 6 |
| Harrison Gimbel | 60.400 | 37 | 6 |
| Sami Shurbaji | 59.300 | 26 | 8 |
| Frank Stepuchin | 59.300 | 29 | 6 |
| Patrick Eskandar | 59.200 | 35 | 7 |
| Viacheslav Fentisov | 59.000 | 26 | 1 |
| Lisa Costello | 58.300 | 27 | 8 |
| Bob Mather | 58.000 | 1 | 8 |
| Casey Diener | 58.000 | 15 | 1 |
| Mohsin Charania | 57.800 | 30 | 3 |
| Sheng Ye | 57.700 | 10 | 9 |
| Noah Goodwin | 57.600 | 13 | 6 |
| Corey Hochman | 56.900 | 3 | 8 |
| Eric Vallee | 56.700 | 13 | 4 |
| Sonny Sangjinda | 56.500 | 7 | 4 |
| Asher Conniff | 56.100 | 23 | 9 |
| Michal Nahum | 55.500 | 17 | 4 |
| Ryan LaPlante | 55.500 | 24 | 1 |
| Daniel Buzgon | 55.200 | 13 | 8 |
| Chip Jett | 54.500 | 28 | 1 |
| Dutch Boyd | 54.500 | 28 | 7 |
| Michael Haag | 54.300 | 17 | 1 |
| Ping Liu | 53.600 | 14 | 8 |
| Spencer Champlin | 53.300 | 36 | 4 |
| Adam Demersseman | 53.200 | 20 | 8 |
| Mike Azzaro | 52.600 | 24 | 9 |
| Keven Stammen | 52.400 | 15 | 7 |
| Paul Balzano | 52.400 | 25 | 7 |
| Charbel Azzi | 52.100 | 3 | 9 |
| James Calderaro | 52.000 | 36 | 1 |
| Peter Cross | 51.900 | 5 | 5 |
| Jeff Epstein | 51.900 | 35 | 6 |
| Jared Griener | 51.400 | 7 | 7 |
| Mack Lee | 51.400 | 14 | 7 |
| Joseph Di Rosa Rojas | 51.100 | 29 | 7 |
| Nick Jivkov | 51.100 | 29 | 8 |
| Katherine Fleck | 50.000 | 28 | 4 |
| Brett Murray | 49.800 | 8 | 9 |
| Ryan Yu | 48.900 | 23 | 7 |
| Daniel Strelitz | 48.800 | 6 | 1 |
| Stanley Lee | 48.600 | 32 | 8 |
| Daniel Park | 48.500 | 25 | 1 |
| Jerry Humphrey | 48.400 | 20 | 6 |
| Michael Taylor | 48.100 | 4 | 1 |
| Steve Gross | 48.000 | 3 | 6 |
| Matt Berkey | 47.500 | 32 | 7 |
| Jason Leifer | 47.300 | 30 | 8 |
| Calen McNeil | 47.200 | 28 | 6 |
| Thomas Winters | 47.000 | 12 | 1 |
| Charles Craig | 46.300 | 23 | 3 |
| Jesse Sylvia | 46.300 | 36 | 2 |
| Joseph Guarino | 46.100 | 33 | 2 |
| Jason Sagle | 46.000 | 31 | 4 |
| Russel McClean | 45.500 | 16 | 1 |
| Daniel Thomas | 45.100 | 34 | 7 |
| Sorel Mizzi | 45.000 | 15 | 8 |
| Anthony Pitesa | 44.900 | 10 | 7 |
| David Novosel | 44.600 | 29 | 2 |
| Phil Hui | 44.500 | 32 | 2 |
| Shankar Pillai | 44.200 | 5 | 2 |
| Millard Hale | 43.000 | 29 | 9 |
| Michael Walsh | 42.000 | 30 | 7 |
| A.J. Nimer | 41.800 | 7 | 3 |
| Kevin Calenzo | 40.900 | 33 | 3 |
| Sam Panzica | 40.800 | 25 | 9 |
| Barry Schmeiss | 40.400 | 17 | 2 |
| James Millman | 40.200 | 13 | 5 |
| Yosif Nawabi | 40.000 | 1 | 3 |
| Christian Soto | 39.900 | 32 | 1 |
| Christopher DeMaci | 39.800 | 12 | 3 |
| Thomas Skeeles | 38.400 | 19 | 9 |
| Carol Harmon | 37.600 | 9 | 9 |
| Andrew Lichtenberger | 36.600 | 35 | 4 |
| Nam Le | 36.100 | 14 | 3 |
| Laurie Swaney | 36.000 | 20 | 9 |
| Ajay Gnanasambanthan | 36.000 | 21 | 7 |
| Danielle Barille | 35.800 | 16 | 9 |
| Thomas Kornechuk | 35.800 | 33 | 9 |
| Kyle „KC“ Carlston | 35.400 | 17 | 3 |
| Rayan Chamas | 35.400 | 31 | 1 |
| Chris Moorman | 35.300 | 9 | 5 |
| Ryan Coon | 33.100 | 34 | 4 |
| Zach Gruneberg | 32.800 | 37 | 7 |
| Dalton Brinker | 32.400 | 26 | 4 |
| Bob Shao | 32.100 | 6 | 7 |
| Kitty Kuo | 32.100 | 16 | 5 |
| Daniel Jones | 31.600 | 7 | 2 |
| Anne Bai | 31.400 | 8 | 4 |
| Justin Zaki | 31.200 | 15 | 4 |
| Jose Castaneda | 31.000 | 1 | 1 |
| Dien Le | 30.700 | 25 | 6 |
| Chris Colston | 30.300 | 5 | 6 |
| Danny Qutami | 30.100 | 15 | 3 |
| Shannon Shorr | 29.000 | 15 | 2 |
| Antonio Gutierrez | 29.000 | 33 | 4 |
| Jake Schwartz | 28.800 | 13 | 9 |
| Jessica Dawley | 28.500 | 34 | 6 |
| Shawn Kjetland | 28.200 | 23 | 6 |
| Ken Einiger | 27.500 | 5 | 3 |
| Jason Levine | 27.100 | 37 | 2 |
| Matt Affleck | 26.500 | 18 | 4 |
| Bruce Kramer | 26.500 | 32 | 4 |
| Daniel Hauptfeld | 26.100 | 23 | 4 |
| Amit Makhija | 26.000 | 19 | 2 |
| Eddy Sabat | 25.400 | 21 | 6 |
| Satish Surapaneni | 25.300 | 9 | 6 |
| Nathan Gamble | 25.000 | 22 | 8 |
| Oliver Canavan | 25.000 | 16 | 2 |
| Zu Qin Zhou | 24.700 | 14 | 6 |
| Andy Park | 24.600 | 18 | 2 |
| Toby Lewis | 24.300 | 37 | 1 |
| David Solomon | 22.600 | 14 | 4 |
| Xin Xian Deng | 22.000 | 11 | 7 |
| Jeannette Mendez | 21.700 | 29 | 1 |
| Matthew Grocolsky | 21.300 | 5 | 8 |
| James Collopy | 20.800 | 13 | 2 |
| Paul W. Lee | 20.500 | 34 | 3 |
| Chris Johnson | 20.400 | 1 | 2 |
| Nikolai Sears | 20.100 | 20 | 3 |
| Zane Houck | 18.600 | 7 | 5 |
| Sandeep Pulusani | 18.300 | 2 | 3 |
| Haroon Amin | 17.800 | 17 | 9 |
| Noeung Troeung | 17.600 | 8 | 2 |
| Gueorgui Gantchev | 16.800 | 22 | 3 |
| Hunter Frey | 16.800 | 36 | 3 |
| Kevin MacPhee | 16.200 | 9 | 8 |
| Huy Le | 16.200 | 15 | 5 |
| Shawn Daniels | 16.000 | 28 | 9 |
| Patrick Truong | 16.000 | 30 | 1 |
| Jesse Yaginuma | 15.900 | 4 | 7 |
| Craig Varnell | 15.000 | 35 | 3 |
| Tony Dunst | 13.900 | 11 | 6 |
| Joe Kuether | 13.800 | 2 | 1 |
| James Mordue | 13.500 | 20 | 2 |
| Jim Crouch | 12.400 | 35 | 8 |
| Tony Gargano | 11.700 | 9 | 7 |
| Chris Doan | 11.700 | 17 | 6 |
| Jeff Sluzinski | 10.300 | 27 | 2 |
| Chris Yingling | 6.200 | 9 | 2 |